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Android 17 marks the start of our transition to an intelligence system, putting your apps at the center. It brings your app experiences to more form factors than ever with an adaptive-first development standard while delivering next-generation privacy, security, media, camera, and performance.

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Training

Get set up, code Hello World, and go deeper with training courses that take you from beginner to advanced topics.

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Extend

Create adaptive apps optimized for phones, tablets, foldables, ChromeOS devices, parked car apps, and XR 2D.

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Enhance

Add on-device machine learning features to your app to enable the latest processing capabilities for images, audio, and text.

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Build multidevice experiences that delight your users with personal and communal experiences on all kinds of devices.

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Modern Android

Simplify and accelerate UI development with the modern toolkit for building native UI. Develop your app using less code, more-powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs.

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Modern Android

Kotlin is beloved by many Android developers for its combination of simplicity and power. Now Kotlin development on Android is a first-class experience.

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Due to a large file size, the number of organic installs was lower than the team had hoped for such a popular franchise. Google Play Instant to the rescue!

Learn how the Android engineers at Cuvva re-architected their app to use a unidirectional data flow and Jetpack Compose.

After seeing that their codebase's line count was growing 46% every year, Duolingo's Android developers found success in migrating from Java to Kotlin.